The Patriot Post® · Reader Comments

Editor’s Note: Each week we receive hundreds of comments and correspondences — and we read every one of them. What follows are a few thought-provoking comments about specific articles. The views expressed herein don’t necessarily reflect those of The Patriot Post.

Re: “Candidates Matter”

“Typical of Schumer to call for yet another gun control vote to get members ‘on the record’ before the poor children’s bodies are even cold. Blame the gun? Guns have been around since the Revolutionary War. Mass school shootings are pretty much a recent phenomena, historically speaking. Blame the gun? I blame Democrat policy from the last 30 or 40 years of dividing people into perpetual victim classes (LBGT, Hispanic, black, transgender, etc.), convincing them their lot in life is not the fault of their own but the fault of the patriarchy, the system, whitey, Trump supporters, Asians, and every other bogeyman imaginable. It’s no wonder some of these folks eventually go off the deep end.” —Texas

“In our neighboring Florida, Ron DeSantis has proven that we can have our cake and eat it too. We can have an unapologetic conservative culture warrior WITHOUT the conceited cult of personality and over-the-top immaturity that cost Trump so much support. I think he really did win, but had Trump retained a larger margin, the Democrats might not have been ABLE to cheat Biden over the finish line.” —Georgia

Re: “FBI Brass Were Eager to Get Trump”

“I have friends at the FBI, one of whom was at the highest levels. These guys were and are extremely ethical and very patriotic. Consequently, my concern goes out to the rank-and-file members of the bureau as they endure the disgusting behavior of the senior FBI leadership involved in this issue. Their immoral and unethical behavior smacks of the old J. Edgar Hoover regime. Having known my friends in the bureau, I thought we were past that.” —Washington

Re: “Energy Reliability vs. Climate Heroics”

“I’m currently reading Greenpeace cofounder Patrick Moore’s book Confession of a Greenpeace Dropout in which he goes into some detail of why wind and solar will fail. His latest book also references it, as do books by Michael Shellenberger, Marc Morao, Robert Bryce, and William Tucker. All expose the truth about wind and solar and about Three Mile Island, Chernobyl, and Fukushima. Wind and solar are unreliable and as such require an equal equivalent amount of power from reliable sources like fossil and nuclear. Democrats have an agenda and won’t budge. Republicans are either stupid and deny the facts or are ignorant and too cowardly to speak up.” —Minnesota

Re: “The Home Price Explosion”

“The price of a 2x4x8’ stud was about $2-$3 a few years ago. Now they are about $6. Saw them as high as $9 a few weeks ago. Hundreds if not thousands of these are used to build a house. The huge increase in the cost of building materials will of course affect the price of a home. Add on historically low interest rates for a mortgage and the huge demand for houses in some areas (like Texas) and it drives prices higher. They are building houses EVERYWHERE in DFW. Small 1,200-square-foot homes spaced 10 feet apart are going for north of $250K. A house like this a few years ago might have been half that. With interest rates rising (especially with variable rate mortgages), higher property taxes, and massive inflation, I don’t see this ending well.” —Texas

Re: “The Left’s Solution Is Always Death”

“Whether a person can contribute to society or not must never be the criteria by which we measure the value of that person’s life. Historically, slaves were valued for their utility to his/her rulers. Slavery was common in world practice only two centuries ago, but today such thought is abhorrent. How long before health insurance companies (especially government funded) can deny coverage of treatment based on a patient’s chance of being fully restored to society? A society that can justify the value of people by their utility — e.g.: unborn, mentally deficient, handicapped, terminally ill, etc. — is marching along paths trod by victims of the Holocaust. God forbid!” —Missouri

Re: “Tuesday Executive News Summary”

“Typical of Newsom, fertilizer flows every time he opens his mouth. In 2014, California voters approved Prop. 1 authorizing $7.5 billion to alleviate California’s water woes. A total of $2.7 billion was allocated to build reservoirs for capturing runoff water during the rainy season. Eight years after the bond issue passed, $0 dollars have been spent in construction of the needed reservoirs. The $2.7 billion sits idle, bogged down by the Sacramento bureaucracy, feasibility studies, and environmental permitting. The Clippers Arena was fast-tracked through the environmental process and approved by Newsom in less than two years.” —California

Re: “Strength and Honor!”

“I served in Vietnam, Laos, and North Vietnam during 2.5 tours (my last tour came to an early end due to getting in the way of enemy ordinance) as an Army Special Forces officer. Thank you, Mr. Helle, for publishing your thoughts regarding that conflict. Beyond combat, it was a difficult time to endure what we were facing at ‘home.’ Even several of my own family were not supportive. I am sure that the negative pressures I experienced having served in Vietnam were what kept driving me to return. I became even stronger having served there.” —Washington